Congress workers took to the streets and burned the effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, holding him responsible and accusing him of foisting false cases against Rahul Gandhi after the Gujarat High Court refused to stay the conviction in the ‘Modi Surname’ defamation case.
Led by former MP Ponnam Prabhakar and Youth Congress president Shivsena Reddy, Congress workers blocked the road in Vemulawada in the erstwhile Karimnagar district and protested against the verdict. Mr. Prabhakar said that people were believing that courts in Gujarat are turning into BJP party offices and Mr. Modi was destroying all the institutions in the country.
Mr. Shivsena Reddy said the entire nation was behind Mr. Rahul Gandhi and the party cadre would be behind him in the fight for justice. Sircilla District Congress president Adi Srinivas said that the BJP was perturbed by the response to Mr. Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra and the developments in the old case after the yatra’s success indicates who were behind this.
